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Tuesday, February 23, 2010
BAE Systems Looks Beyond Mantis Spiral 1
In October 2007, not even the design concept had been selected, but 24 months later the Mantis medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned air vehicle demonstrator flew for the first time—even allowing for some non-program-related distractions.
The BAE Systems-led Mantis program, the first phase of which has been jointly funded by industry and the U.K. Defense Ministry, is aimed at addressing British military needs for a deep and persistent surveillance platform, coupled with a weapons delivery capability. The ministry has a notional in-service date of 2015-16 for such a system.
The Mantis program was put together at BAE’s Lightning Works, the company nickname for the highly secure hangar at its Warton site in the northwest of England, a rapid prototyping environment that is also the incubator for a number of past and present U.K. classified programs.
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